Witches:
The three withes can actually put spells on people. They have the capability to see the future. For example, prophesizes to Macbeth and Banquo that Macbeth will be the Thane of Cawdor and king respectively. Also, they assert that Banquo's son will be a king.
Macbeth:
Macbeth is Thane of Glamis currently. He will become the future king according to the witches’ prophesy. He has earned victory and glory in the previous war. At this time period, he does not have a lot of ambitions.
Banque:
He is one of a close friend of Macbeth. Also, the witches tell him that he will have a boy that will be the future king. However, he will not be a king.
Ross:
Ross is the king's servant. He enters the play as he congratulates Macbeth for his previous war and his victory. He tells Macbeth and Banquo what had happened to the Thane of Cawdor.
Angus:
He is also one of the king's servants. He comes with Ross to tell Macbeth for this glory in the war. He states that the Thane of Cawdor had betrayed them and that he was proven as guilty. In consequence, Macbeth will take the title.
Summary:
As the three witches talk about a sailor's wife, Macbeth and Banquo come in and meet them. When they first see them, the witches’s figure and their clothing surprise them because they looked different from living beings on earth. The witches’ prophets that Macbeth will be a king. Macbeth and Banquo are surprised to hear the news and want to hear more about their prophets. However, the witches do not tell more. Also, the three witches state that Banque will not be the king but his son will be a king later on. After the witches vanish, they meet Ross and Angus. They greet them by saying that Macbeth has become the thane of Cawdor, since the former thane was proven as guilty. Macbeth and Banque are surprised to hear this because the withes’s prophets came true. At the end of the play, they are on their way to the king.
Conflicts:
The Macbeth and Banque meet the wild-looking witches, who aren't really nice at all. They do not know the withes well. The witches scare them. However, the witches tell Macbeth stating that he will be a king. Also, Banque states that his son will be a king. Since it is impossible to have two kings at a time, we can foreshadow that there will be conflicts. Also, When they vanish without full explanation, the servants of the king comes and gives information that is the same as what the witches had said previously.
Assignment 2
1.5 reflection
· What do we learn about Lady Macbeth in these scenes?
Through this scene, we learn that unlike how Macbeth showed no greed during the first and second scene, Lady Macbeth has hunger for more power. She clearly knows that she and Macbeth need to kill Duncan, which will clean the way for Macbeth to be a king.
· How might Lady Macbeth answer the question “What is the meaning of life?” Explain your answer.
She would answer that the meaning of life is to gain as much power as one can. Also, in order to gain power and one’s wants, one should do whatever it takes to gain one’s goal. The reason why I think that she would state this is because Lady Macbeth states that she will attain the supreme power whatever it takes.
· Identify and write out two of Lady Macbeth’s lines that are particularly striking. Explain why you selected the lines.
The two of Lady Macbeth’s lines are “Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear. And chastise with the valor of my tongue. All that impedes thee from the golden roun”(25) and “ Oh never shall sun that morrow see!” (61). These lines clearly shows that she will try to kill Duncan whatever it takes. Her characteristics are much different from those of Macbeth. I selected this line because these two lines shows the Lady Macbeth’s man-like behavior and her ambition for power.
· Identify one significant word that Lady Macbeth uses in 1.5 or 1.6, and define both the denotation and connotation of the word. Explain why you think the word is significant.
Knife(52)
Denotation: It is a tool that helps to cut something.
Connotation: It provides an aura of frightening and death. Also, it has negative feelings. I think that this word is significant because it shows how Lady Macbeth is violent and man-like. Also, it shows her dangerous plot to kill Duncan. The word brings to the reader the dark thoughts of the character.
Assignment 3
Prepare for discussion on the following question: "Why has Macbeth decided to kill King Duncan by the end of Act1?
There are three support that shows why Macbeth has changed his mind to kill Duncan. Before, Macbeth was scared because he was unplanned. However, he is planned with the help from Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth has planned a plot which seems to Macbeth, plausible.Line 61: “And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep”
He has ambition:
He was first stimulated because he had ambition. He wouldn't have made up his mind if he didn't had the ambition and greed. ”Caulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other” (28)
Lady Macbeth “When you durst do it, then you were a man;” “And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.” (49~52)
She stimulates his mind that he should be brave and courageous to be a proper man. Also, she provokes his cowardliness by saying that he is a man.
After the discussion:
I didn't changed my mind about the fact that Lady Macbeth urges Macbeth to kill Duncan. Also, he has ambition, he is afraid to face the consequences. However, Lady Macbeth provides him a plausible scheme in killing Duncan. Also she sort of mocks him and teases him that he is a man and that in order to keep the manhood, he needs to be brave and not be coward. Lady Macbeth plays a large role in pushing him to kill Duncan while he stays in his home.
Assignment4
How does Macbeth react to the killing of Duncan? Why does he react this way?
When he kills Duncan, he actually seems to be ready to kill Duncan. However, after he killed Duncan and met Lady Macbeth, he is scared and frightened to what he had done. Also, he is actually afraid of getting caught although nobody was there to see him killing Duncan.As he was coming out from Duncan's room after the murder, he heard of servents saying amen. At that time, he had thought that he needed the most blessing from God since he murdered the king. "But wherefore could not I pronounce"Amen"?" I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"Stuck in my throat." (2.2 35) This implies that he feels guilty. Also, when he had to go back and put back the dagger to the servants, he couldn't because he was afraid and doesn't want to think about the murer "I'm afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not"(2.2 55).
How does Lady Macbeth react to the killing of Duncan? Why does she react this way?
Unlike Duncan, Lady Macbeth feels satisfied when Macbeth killed Duncan. She believes that the murder of Duncan had led them to be a step closer to gain the supreme power. She, unlike the general feminist characteristic, is not afraid of blood or death. For instance, she was the one that put back the blooded dagger to the servants without any hesitations. " Give me the daggers, The sleeping and the eat Are but as pictures. This the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. " (2.2 60) She is more manlike than Macbeth. I think that she acts this way because she really wants Macbeth to gain the king's power, as the witches told and wants herself to become a queen. She has hunger for more power. "Consider it not so deeply." (2.2) says Lady Macbeth. She tries to not think of the immoral act since her ambition for power covers her moral thoughts.
Assignment 5
3.5:
Hecate is angry that the witches had told Macbeth about his future without her permission.
3.6:
Lennox and the Lord is talking what is happening in the kingdom and the people such as Malcome planning to wage war with Macbeth.
The Lord believes that Macbeth is the murderer of both Duncan and Banquo.
4.1Questions
1. What does Macbeth want in this scene?.
Macbeth wants to go to the witches again and knows more about his future. Also, he wants to know if there is a certain things that would threaten him as a king.
2. What stands in his way?
Macduff stands in his way because Macduff wants to kill Macbeth. Also, Macbeth's hate for Macbeth increases when he finds out that Macduff had went to England to find help to fight against Macbeth.
3. How does Macbeth attempt overcome the obstacles in is way?
Macbeth tries to kill Macduff and his families. His action is the same as what he did to Duncan and Banquo. Macbeth believes that nobody would be able to kill him.
4. What do the witches want in this scene?
The witches wants Macbeth to be in a confusion by prophesying him confusingly just like when Hecate told them to do.
Assignment 6
(if you are a FEMALE answer the following question) How has Lady Macbeth transformed by the end of the play?
find two pieces of textual evidence from Act 5 to support your ideas
write a paragraph to explain each piece of textual evidence
"It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands, I have known her continue I this a quarter of an hour." (Gentlewoman)
In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth showed her man-like behavior. For instance, she insisted and also encouraged Macbeth to murder Duncan. Although Macbeth wanted to have more power, he was actually afraid of murdering the king. However, Lady Macbeth planned it so that Macbeth would be able to kill Duncan. However, in act 5 she seems to be having trouble during her sleep. While she is unconscious from sleeping, she would sleepwalk about try to wash her hands for hours. Although her hands are clean, she continues to state that her hands are covered with blood. In other words, she seems to feel guilty inside although she hadn’t said anything about it awake. Inside, she feels a great guilty which seems to take out life from her.
"Foul whisperings are abroad. Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician. God, God forgive us all! Look after her" (Doctor)
Lady Macbeth talks and sleepwalks when she is in deep sleep. She also tries to wash her hands although they are clean. Plotting to kill Duncan and trying to look innocent made her to feel guilty more than ever. However, she seemed to be man-like before and right after Macbeth had killed Duncan. Nonetheless the guilty seems to cover her as time passes.
Assignment 7
On your MR wiki page, answer the following questions. Provide at least one piece of textual evidence for each answer. (This assignment will provide some ideas for the final paper.)
What is the main idea of the story?
The main idea of the story is that greed and ambition takes over the true happiness in life. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had ambitions for more power than what they had before. After hearing about the prophecy, Macbeth looked to gain the king’s power. “That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires”(1.4 50). In addition, at the end, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambition and greed ultimately killed them. “The Queen, my lord is dead” (5.5 ). In this part Lady Macbeth hallucinates and comments about the murder, “ What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?” (5.1 36-38)
·What can we learn from these characters? Select one or two characters and explain your answer.
If we look at Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, they both wanted supreme power and did whatever it took to gain the power. They managed to kill anyone who was in their way. Their ambition and greed were their source of power. However in consequence, their ambition was their demise. We can learn from this that we should be satisfied with what we have now and find a moral way to reach our goal. Doing immoral things to get what we want will only bring unfortunate and unexpected consequences. Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan by saying, “To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye your hand, your tongue. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” (1.6 64). “False face must hide what the false heart doth know“ (2.1 83) says Macbeth as he made up his mind to murder Duncan.
·Do you see recurring images, words, deeds, situations, consequences, mistakes? Select two items from the preceding list and give examples from the play.
A recurring situation is the ambition of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; they yearned to gain supreme power and ultimately become king and queen. Also, throughout the play I was able to spot a series of murders in order to acquire more power. For instance, Macbeth and his servants killed Duncan, Banquo, and the son of Caitness. Macbeth orders the murderers to kill Banquo and his son “ It is concluded, Banquo, thy soul’s flight, If it find heaven, must find it our tonight” (3.2 43). Throughout the play I was able to spot repetition of the word, blood. For example, people see a lot of blood spilt when Macbeth killed Duncan and Lady Macbeth washes her hands because she hallucinates that there are spots of blood on her hands. “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” Lady Macbeth stats as she washes her hands.” (5.1 40)
Assignment1
Witches:The three withes can actually put spells on people. They have the capability to see the future. For example, prophesizes to Macbeth and Banquo that Macbeth will be the Thane of Cawdor and king respectively. Also, they assert that Banquo's son will be a king.
Macbeth:
Macbeth is Thane of Glamis currently. He will become the future king according to the witches’ prophesy. He has earned victory and glory in the previous war. At this time period, he does not have a lot of ambitions.
Banque:
He is one of a close friend of Macbeth. Also, the witches tell him that he will have a boy that will be the future king. However, he will not be a king.
Ross:
Ross is the king's servant. He enters the play as he congratulates Macbeth for his previous war and his victory. He tells Macbeth and Banquo what had happened to the Thane of Cawdor.
Angus:
He is also one of the king's servants. He comes with Ross to tell Macbeth for this glory in the war. He states that the Thane of Cawdor had betrayed them and that he was proven as guilty. In consequence, Macbeth will take the title.
Summary:
As the three witches talk about a sailor's wife, Macbeth and Banquo come in and meet them. When they first see them, the witches’s figure and their clothing surprise them because they looked different from living beings on earth. The witches’ prophets that Macbeth will be a king. Macbeth and Banquo are surprised to hear the news and want to hear more about their prophets. However, the witches do not tell more. Also, the three witches state that Banque will not be the king but his son will be a king later on. After the witches vanish, they meet Ross and Angus. They greet them by saying that Macbeth has become the thane of Cawdor, since the former thane was proven as guilty. Macbeth and Banque are surprised to hear this because the withes’s prophets came true. At the end of the play, they are on their way to the king.
Conflicts:
The Macbeth and Banque meet the wild-looking witches, who aren't really nice at all. They do not know the withes well. The witches scare them. However, the witches tell Macbeth stating that he will be a king. Also, Banque states that his son will be a king. Since it is impossible to have two kings at a time, we can foreshadow that there will be conflicts. Also, When they vanish without full explanation, the servants of the king comes and gives information that is the same as what the witches had said previously.
Assignment 2
1.5 reflection
· What do we learn about Lady Macbeth in these scenes?
Through this scene, we learn that unlike how Macbeth showed no greed during the first and second scene, Lady Macbeth has hunger for more power. She clearly knows that she and Macbeth need to kill Duncan, which will clean the way for Macbeth to be a king.· How might Lady Macbeth answer the question “What is the meaning of life?” Explain your answer.
She would answer that the meaning of life is to gain as much power as one can. Also, in order to gain power and one’s wants, one should do whatever it takes to gain one’s goal. The reason why I think that she would state this is because Lady Macbeth states that she will attain the supreme power whatever it takes.· Identify and write out two of Lady Macbeth’s lines that are particularly striking. Explain why you selected the lines.
The two of Lady Macbeth’s lines are “Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear. And chastise with the valor of my tongue. All that impedes thee from the golden roun”(25) and “ Oh never shall sun that morrow see!” (61). These lines clearly shows that she will try to kill Duncan whatever it takes. Her characteristics are much different from those of Macbeth. I selected this line because these two lines shows the Lady Macbeth’s man-like behavior and her ambition for power.
· Identify one significant word that Lady Macbeth uses in 1.5 or 1.6, and define both the denotation and connotation of the word. Explain why you think the word is significant.
Knife(52)
Denotation: It is a tool that helps to cut something.
Connotation: It provides an aura of frightening and death. Also, it has negative feelings. I think that this word is significant because it shows how Lady Macbeth is violent and man-like. Also, it shows her dangerous plot to kill Duncan. The word brings to the reader the dark thoughts of the character.
Assignment 3
Prepare for discussion on the following question: "Why has Macbeth decided to kill King Duncan by the end of Act1?There are three support that shows why Macbeth has changed his mind to kill Duncan. Before, Macbeth was scared because he was unplanned. However, he is planned with the help from Lady Macbeth. Lady Macbeth has planned a plot which seems to Macbeth, plausible.Line 61: “And we’ll not fail. When Duncan is asleep”
He has ambition:
He was first stimulated because he had ambition. He wouldn't have made up his mind if he didn't had the ambition and greed. ”Caulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on th’other” (28)
Lady Macbeth “When you durst do it, then you were a man;”
“And to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.” (49~52)
She stimulates his mind that he should be brave and courageous to be a proper man. Also, she provokes his cowardliness by saying that he is a man.
After the discussion:
I didn't changed my mind about the fact that Lady Macbeth urges Macbeth to kill Duncan. Also, he has ambition, he is afraid to face the consequences. However, Lady Macbeth provides him a plausible scheme in killing Duncan. Also she sort of mocks him and teases him that he is a man and that in order to keep the manhood, he needs to be brave and not be coward. Lady Macbeth plays a large role in pushing him to kill Duncan while he stays in his home.Assignment4
When he kills Duncan, he actually seems to be ready to kill Duncan. However, after he killed Duncan and met Lady Macbeth, he is scared and frightened to what he had done. Also, he is actually afraid of getting caught although nobody was there to see him killing Duncan.As he was coming out from Duncan's room after the murder, he heard of servents saying amen. At that time, he had thought that he needed the most blessing from God since he murdered the king. "But wherefore could not I pronounce"Amen"?" I had most need of blessing, and "Amen"Stuck in my throat." (2.2 35) This implies that he feels guilty. Also, when he had to go back and put back the dagger to the servants, he couldn't because he was afraid and doesn't want to think about the murer "I'm afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not"(2.2 55).
Unlike Duncan, Lady Macbeth feels satisfied when Macbeth killed Duncan. She believes that the murder of Duncan had led them to be a step closer to gain the supreme power. She, unlike the general feminist characteristic, is not afraid of blood or death. For instance, she was the one that put back the blooded dagger to the servants without any hesitations. " Give me the daggers, The sleeping and the eat Are but as pictures. This the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I'll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt. " (2.2 60) She is more manlike than Macbeth. I think that she acts this way because she really wants Macbeth to gain the king's power, as the witches told and wants herself to become a queen. She has hunger for more power. "Consider it not so deeply." (2.2) says Lady Macbeth. She tries to not think of the immoral act since her ambition for power covers her moral thoughts.
Assignment 5
3.5:Hecate is angry that the witches had told Macbeth about his future without her permission.
3.6:
Lennox and the Lord is talking what is happening in the kingdom and the people such as Malcome planning to wage war with Macbeth.
The Lord believes that Macbeth is the murderer of both Duncan and Banquo.
4.1Questions
1. What does Macbeth want in this scene?.
Macbeth wants to go to the witches again and knows more about his future. Also, he wants to know if there is a certain things that would threaten him as a king.
2. What stands in his way?
Macduff stands in his way because Macduff wants to kill Macbeth. Also, Macbeth's hate for Macbeth increases when he finds out that Macduff had went to England to find help to fight against Macbeth.
3. How does Macbeth attempt overcome the obstacles in is way?
Macbeth tries to kill Macduff and his families. His action is the same as what he did to Duncan and Banquo. Macbeth believes that nobody would be able to kill him.
4. What do the witches want in this scene?
The witches wants Macbeth to be in a confusion by prophesying him confusingly just like when Hecate told them to do.
Assignment 6
"It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands, I have known her continue I this a quarter of an hour." (Gentlewoman)
In the beginning of the play, Lady Macbeth showed her man-like behavior. For instance, she insisted and also encouraged Macbeth to murder Duncan. Although Macbeth wanted to have more power, he was actually afraid of murdering the king. However, Lady Macbeth planned it so that Macbeth would be able to kill Duncan. However, in act 5 she seems to be having trouble during her sleep. While she is unconscious from sleeping, she would sleepwalk about try to wash her hands for hours. Although her hands are clean, she continues to state that her hands are covered with blood. In other words, she seems to feel guilty inside although she hadn’t said anything about it awake. Inside, she feels a great guilty which seems to take out life from her.
"Foul whisperings are abroad. Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician. God, God forgive us all! Look after her" (Doctor)
Lady Macbeth talks and sleepwalks when she is in deep sleep. She also tries to wash her hands although they are clean. Plotting to kill Duncan and trying to look innocent made her to feel guilty more than ever. However, she seemed to be man-like before and right after Macbeth had killed Duncan. Nonetheless the guilty seems to cover her as time passes.
Assignment 7
On your MR wiki page, answer the following questions. Provide at least one piece of textual evidence for each answer. (This assignment will provide some ideas for the final paper.)What is the main idea of the story?
The main idea of the story is that greed and ambition takes over the true happiness in life. Macbeth and Lady Macbeth had ambitions for more power than what they had before. After hearing about the prophecy, Macbeth looked to gain the king’s power. “That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires”(1.4 50). In addition, at the end, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s ambition and greed ultimately killed them. “The Queen, my lord is dead” (5.5 ). In this part Lady Macbeth hallucinates and comments about the murder, “ What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?” (5.1 36-38)
· What can we learn from these characters? Select one or two characters and explain your answer.
If we look at Lady Macbeth and Macbeth, they both wanted supreme power and did whatever it took to gain the power. They managed to kill anyone who was in their way. Their ambition and greed were their source of power. However in consequence, their ambition was their demise. We can learn from this that we should be satisfied with what we have now and find a moral way to reach our goal. Doing immoral things to get what we want will only bring unfortunate and unexpected consequences. Lady Macbeth convinces Macbeth to murder Duncan by saying, “To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye your hand, your tongue. Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t” (1.6 64). “False face must hide what the false heart doth know“ (2.1 83) says Macbeth as he made up his mind to murder Duncan.
· Do you see recurring images, words, deeds, situations, consequences, mistakes? Select two items from the preceding list and give examples from the play.
A recurring situation is the ambition of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth; they yearned to gain supreme power and ultimately become king and queen. Also, throughout the play I was able to spot a series of murders in order to acquire more power. For instance, Macbeth and his servants killed Duncan, Banquo, and the son of Caitness. Macbeth orders the murderers to kill Banquo and his son “ It is concluded, Banquo, thy soul’s flight, If it find heaven, must find it our tonight” (3.2 43). Throughout the play I was able to spot repetition of the word, blood. For example, people see a lot of blood spilt when Macbeth killed Duncan and Lady Macbeth washes her hands because she hallucinates that there are spots of blood on her hands. “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” Lady Macbeth stats as she washes her hands.” (5.1 40)